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Alien: Isolation Stalks PS4, PS3 Later This Year

Are those the cogs of the press cycle being kicked back into gear, or are we being pursued by a great leathery Martian? We’re going to assume it’s the latter, as SEGA has decided to give the ol’ Ridley Scott thing another bash, confirming that Total War developer Creative Assembly is working on Alien: Isolation for the PlayStation 3 and, of course, PlayStation 4.

The macabre sequel sees you assume the role of Amanda, the daughter of Ellen Ripley. Taking a little inspiration from Amnesia: The Dark Descent, the survival horror escapade will see you stalked by a lone Xenomorph as you search a remote trading station named the Sevastopol in search of a flight recorder from the abovementioned heroine’s ship.

The first trailer certainly looks promising, but given what happened to Aliens: Colonial Marines, we recommend tempering your expectations just a touch until the publisher opts to show more. Are you in the market for another intergalactic fright-fest, or has Gearbox’s shoddy shooter soured you on this series entirely? Avoid us in the comments section below.

What happened with Colonial Marines is that Sega handed development to Gearbox who then decided to out-source it themselves to a developer Id never even heard of myself. Here we have an internal Sega studio working on the title so I doubt we'd have anything like the fiasco Gearbox regurgitated for Sega. I think they could be on to something here. A singular Alien that could kill you in seconds & a lack of weapons would instill more fear than a dozen you can destroy with a Smart Gun in a blink of an eye. We'll have to see how this one goes, but Im hopeful seen as Sega are keeping this one internally developed

I am a certified alien and giger nerd. Alien 3 also had only one alien which gestated inside an animal. It was faster and and made for some great chasing scenes. Alien 3 also had some classic scenes in air vents. I still have alien 3 game on the megadrive/genesis. Its still pretty scary.

I think we need to realise that this game evidently isn't a shooter of any description (at least I cant see how it could be a shooter with only one enemy throughout an entire game...unless the crew have a sudden onset of zombiefication...please god no) and is likely to be more of a Myst style game, a point and click horror/adventure.